The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A beautiful vintage hardcover exploring the lavish fashions of the Hapsburg era, published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1980. Filled with historical portraits, fashion illustrations, and museum imagery, it traces the elaborate dress and court style associated with Austria and Hungary during the imperial period.

The dust jacket features Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of Empress Elisabeth, making the book especially striking as a decorative coffee-table or library piece.

Details

• The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Copyright 1980

• Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications

• Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket

• Historical fashion, portraiture & costume

• Features both color and black-and-white illustrations

• Oversized art / fashion reference book

• ISBN 0-87099-232-5

• Rizzoli ISBN 0-8478-5322-5

Condition:
Good vintage condition overall. The interior appears clean and well preserved. The dust jacket shows noticeable age-related shelf wear, rubbing, and wear/chipping along the edges and corners, particularly near the lower spine and corners, as shown in the photos.